Character graphical changes are NOT in an acceptable state, please make it optional

[Hejligan]

Here are the changes to the eye-area that I was talking about:



Left is old, right is new.

As you can see, the eyebrow is pretty much a different model, much wider and a completely different colour.

The eyelashes are massively more thicker, which darkens the upper part of the eye quite a bit. The eyelashes also essentially add a different perceived shape to the eyes.

There are also different skin folds where the eye ends in the direction of nose, or rather a lack of those folds.

Of course, the lighting in eyes are a different, but that I at least can accept more as a consequence of a different approach to the way graphics interact.

But the point is: why change models? Who asked for this? We have had these characters for a decade in some cases, and grown very attached to them. Who asked to be forced to suddenly have massively thick eyelashes? Who asked to be forced to have different eyebrows with a different colour?

Square Enix themselves stated:

"The goal is to improve the overall look you know and love, rather than to change things to meet a certain threshold. Players have been playing for 10 years, so they want to prioritize and take care to avoid situations where people don’t feel their character looks theirs."

Yoshida says the final version will be of higher quality, but they really did take care to make sure that your impressions of the characters wouldn’t change. The hair texture, eyes, and skin were ones they paid particular attention to."

Please Square Enix, strive to maintain that philosophy, which you yourselves stated you would! The benchmark is not upholding it...

The eyes are a window to the soul, I am not happy about these changes at all.